Trimming or binding for pocket-books, &amp;c.



Pa'tented10ct. 2|, I902. F. DUSTAL. TRHMMNG OR BINDING FOR PUCKETBOOKS, 814:.

(Application filed May 7, 1902.) (No Mod al.)

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND DOSTAL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRIMMING OR BINDING FOR POCKET-BOOKS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 711,834, dated October 21, 1902. Application filed May 7, 1902. suit-1 in. 106,345. (No model.)

' mings, or also metal trimmings; but of course the invention is not confined to any particular class of goods or material, but can be applied in suitable manner and wherever useful ordesirable.

This invention is set forth in the following specification and claims,and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face elevation of a pocketbook with a trimming made according to this invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the trimming on larger scale than in Fig. 1. Fig.4 shows a modification.

The trimmings now in use for pocket-book flaps, belts, and the like are made of one piece of metal, which structure makes the flap or belt rigid, preventing its being readily folded or bent. It is also practically impossible to apply such one-piece trimming to corners or curved edges.

The trimming herein is made of. the separate binding-pieces l, which are connected by the links 2 to form a flexible structure or binding, which can be easily secured about a corner or curved edge, as of pocket-book flap 3, and which will readily fold at the bend 1 of the flap as the latter is opened and closed, or in the placing of the belt about the wearer. The binding-pieces 1 can be provided with a tooth or dent, as indicated at 5, Fig. 4:, for the purpose of piercing or engaging the leather, so as to secure a firm grip when clamped in place. Each piece 1 can have one or more such teeth 5 located opposite to or alternating with one another. Thelinks 2 flexibly unite the body or clasp pieces or sections 1, so that the trimming is flexible in transverse or various directions. For example, this trimming can be bent or curved not only in the plane of a flap or piece of leather or about a corner or curve, but transversely thereto or so as to pass about a bight or hinge portion of a flap or cover. The leather or article can have its edge doubled or bound or left raw, as the trimming can be made to conceal or finish an edge. The sections 1, being tapered or running to a point, or what may approximately be called a point, at their outer edge can be curved about a corner or rounded or convex edge without coming to overlap. Suitably cutting or shaping the sections will produce a scallop or acceptably finished effect when the trimming or binding is in place.

The clencher-or tooth 5, Fig. 4, may not always be necessary, since the sections 1 can be clamped so tightor dented into the leather or material to secure proper hold; but clenching may obviously be advisable under circumstances.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A trimming consisting of a plurality of frictional clasping members flexibly connected together by strips of suitable material, one of said strips engaging in each pair of the clasping members.

2. A trimming consisting of a plurality of frictional claspin g members flexibly connect- ,ed together.

3. A trimming consisting of a plurality of clasping members, each provided with a tooth and flexibly connected together.

4. A trimming consisting of a plurality of claspin g members each provided with a tooth and strips of suitable material, one of said strips engaging in each pair of said members for flexibly connectingthem together.

5. A trimming consisting of a plurality of clasping members each provided with an opening in the top thereof, and strips of suitable material having their ends bent so that each strip will engage in the openings of a pair of the said sections for flexibly connecting them together.

6. A trimming consisting of a plurality of clasping-sections, each of which is provided with an opening in the top thereof, and strips of suitable material having their ends bent to engage in the openings of the said clasping-sections for flexibly connecting them together. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FERDINAND DOSTAL.

Witnesses:

CHAS. E. POENSGEN, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

